'REDISCOVERING GRAZIA DELEDDA': Margherita Heyer-Caput is inviting people to rediscover Grazia Deledda, the Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1926.

Heyer-Caput, a professor of French and Italian, and film studies, is the author of Grazia Deledda's Dance of Modernity.

At a program she is calling "Rediscovering Grazia Deledda," Heyer-Caput plans to give a talk and sign books, and show a short, silent film, Cenere (1916), inspired by Deledda's novel of the same name.

The program, free and open to the public, is set for 5 p.m. Oct. 8 in the Community Room at the International House, 10 College Park, Davis.

LANDSCAPE PLAN: UC Davis' new Landscape Heritage Plan is the focus of a Centennial Academic Showcase program set for Oct. 10.

The guest speaker is listed as Rachel Evans Lloyd, an associate with EDAW, the company that prepared the UC Davis plan. Her talk, sponsored by the Landscape Architecture Program, is scheduled from 3 to 4 p.m. in MU II at the Memorial Union, with admission free and open to the public.

The Landscape Heritage Plan, funded by a $175,000 grant from the Getty Foundation, covers the evolution of the Davis Campus's designed and agricultural landscapes, and includes a preservation plan for historic trees, plus recommendations for the management of historic landscape resources in and around the Quad.

HORSES, POULTRY

-- Horse Day Symposium (Oct. 4) and Farriers Workshop (Oct. 5), presenting the latest information on horse health and care. $30 for the symposium; $150 for the farriers lecture and lab, or $50 for the lecture only. More information is available from the Department of Animal Science: (530) 752-1250 or animalscience.ucdavis.edu (click on "Events").

-- Avian Science Day, for backyard poultry enthusiasts. Oct. 4. Free. More information: (530) 752-1250.

All seminars and colloquia: calendar.ucdavis.edu